WASHINGTON: Newly released data from the US Department of Homeland Security reveals that President Donald Trump deported 37,660 individuals in his first month in office, a figure significantly lower than the monthly average of 57,000 removals and returns recorded during the final full year of Joe Biden’s administration. A senior Trump administration official and experts said deportations were poised to rise in coming months as Trump opens up new avenues to ramp up arrests and removals. DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said Biden-era deportation numbers appeared “artificially high” because of higher…
Trump’s first-month deportations fail to match Biden’s monthly average: data
